2016 Postmortem

I even explained why the speeches were not so mystifying, since that is LITERALLY what every past Sec of State has done. The fact that SHE did them and was compensated commensurate with her stature is what gets everyone's goat, but you criticizer her and bring up Monica, because you literally don't get how your mindset oozes your dislike. Perhaps if you read the piece, some of your confusions would be cleared up.

I'm sorry, but there was nothing unprincipled here, nor were they "stands", nor did conscience enter into the matter. What future political costs? I mean literally, none have ever been exacted from ANYONE other than her, special rules for her, to which no one ever in history has ever been held to. What we've learned here is that she will be attacked, by everyone, even people who think they're making principled stance where conscience plays a role, and who think bringing up her husband's mistakes to attack her once again is a legitimate thing to do and not utterly craven.

I would argue that you are missing the actual facts here, and that she did win in a landslide. It took voter suppression, failed voting machines and a legal push by the GOP to prevent actual counts of votes in suspect areas to steal this election.

Note, there was no email scandal, it was ginned up by RWers and kept alive by a complicit and incompetent media and taken up by factions that lack conscience and principles and which do indeed harbor an intense hatred for her, as exemplified in your own post, which seems blind to what it actually contains.

Consider that her email did no such thing, and took so such time, but that the GOP and the media and factions on the left flamed this nothingburger into yet another faux scandal that produced literally not a single thing. No crime, no violations, nothing. But like with Monica, the GOP and the anti-Clinton factions decided to make a hue and cry over it, because they knew that they could and that people who enjoy hating the Clintons and who deny their own misogyny would eat it up with a spoon.

Consider that the flaws here are not hers, but those of her haters who still cannot own that they blatantly demonstrate with every utterance.